The day in photos

Faberge eggs, custom designed by some of the world’s leading artists and designers and creative-types, are displayed at Rockefeller Plaza in celebration of the Easter season in New York City. The eggs, of which there are more than 260, were part of a city-wide egg hunt that took place over the month of April, known as the Faberge Big Egg Hunt.

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A South Korean diver rests in the water during the rescue operation of the capsized passenger ship “Sewol,” in the sea off Jindo, South Korea. A junior officer was steering the South Korean ferry when it capsized two days ago, investigators said on Friday, as rescuers battled strong tides and murky waters to search for hundreds of missing, many of them school children, feared trapped in the vessel.

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In this photo provided by the Florida Keys News Bureau, Spencer Slate, garbed as a scuba-diving Easter bunny, places hard-boiled eggs on the sea floor in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary off Key Largo, Fla. Slate spearheads an underwater Easter egg hunt each year that serves as a fundraiser for a local children’s charity. The eggs are decorated with food coloring to minimize impacts to the marine environment.

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German bicycle designer Didi Senft, also known as “El Diablo”, rides his new bicycle creation to commemorate the 2014 FIFA World Cup, in the town of Storkow, Germany. Senft, who has had an entry in the Guinness Book of Records for world’s largest bicycle, worked some 100 hours on this bicycle, he said.

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Pilgrims walk across a tidal causeway while carrying crosses during the final leg of the Northern Cross pilgrimage to Holy Island in Northumbria, northern England. For more than thirty years Christians have taken part in the pilgrimage to Holy Island, walking through Northumberland and the Scottish Borders, during Holy Week.

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A police officer walks by the greenhouses on the grounds of the Belgian royal family residence of Laeken in Brussels, Belgium. The royal family opens its interlocking greenhouses with their wide array of flowers to the public every year, for a duration of three weeks.

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Students from different classes attend an outdoor joint lesson outside a school building in Guangzhou, Guangdong province, China.

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Fog surrounds a farm in the mountains in Goncalves, in the state of Minas Gerais in southwestern Brazil.

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A boy carries a girl after what activists said was an air strike by forces loyal to Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad in Aleppo’s Bustan al-Qasr, Syria.

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A man dressed as ancient Roman adjusts his helmet before participating in a re-enactment of the crucifixion of Jesus Christ on Good Friday in Iztapalapa in Mexico City.

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Police officers from around the state of Massachusetts gather near a makeshift memorial for slain Massachusetts Institute of Technology police officer Sean Collier on campus in Cambridge. A memorial service was held on campus for Collier, who authorities say was shot dead by the two men accused of orchestrating last year’s Boston Marathon bombing, which killed three people and injured 264.

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A dog wearing a face mask with black and orange ribbons of St. George (a symbol widely associated with pro-Russian protests in Ukraine) is seen in Slavyansk, Ukraine. Armed pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine said on Friday they were not bound by an international deal ordering them to disarm and would not move out of public buildings they have seized until the Kiev government stepped down.

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Worshipers of the “Santisimo Cristo del Salvador” brotherhood carry the crucifix on their way to the beach during a holy week procession in Valencia, Spain.

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Pope Francis prays on the floor during a Papal Mass with the Celebration of the Lord’s Passion inside St. Peter’s Basilica in Vatican City.

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A parked car suffered damage after a strong earthquake shook Chilpancingo, Mexico. A powerful magnitude-7.2 earthquake shook central and southern Mexico, but there were no early reports of major damage or casualties.

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Wearing ghilli suits, Iranian army troops march in a parade as one of them hold up his weapon, marking National Army Day in front of the mausoleum of the late revolutionary founder Ayatollah Khomeini just outside Tehran, Iran. Ahead of the parade Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani underscored his moderate policies and outreach to the West in a speech.

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Palestinian Christians gather around an effigy of Jesus Christ covered by flowers as part of their services marking Good Friday in the West Bank village of Al-Zababedah near Jenin. Followers of the Eastern Orthodox Churches are marking the solemn period of Easter.

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A rocket carrying the SpaceX Dragon ship lifts off from launch complex 40 at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Cape Canaveral, Fla. The mission will deliver research equipment, food and other supplies to the International Space Station.

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Penitents take part in a procession of “Santo Cristo” during the Holy Week in Bercianos de Aliste, northern Spain. Hundreds of processions take place throughout Spain during the Easter Holy Week.

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A woman passes by a mural in honor of Colombian author Gabriel Garcia Marquez, in Aracataca, Colombia. Garcia Marquez, whose beguiling stories of love and longing brought Latin America to life for millions of readers and put magical realism on the literary map, died on April 17, 2014. He was 87.